Events at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Relational databases can be a great help to historians focusing on intangible things such as ideas. This is the subject for the conversation in this sneak peek-event by the Digital Humanities Research Network.

Merve Tabur explores the history of genre discussions in Arabic through the work of Egyptian pioneer Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm. 

Litteraturprofessor Juan Christian Pellicer tar med seg en sekk med bøker og leser dikt etter innfallsmetoden hver torsdag. Vi serverer sjokolade og kaffe.

At the beginning of 1964, The Beatles were at the height of their popularity in the United Kingdom, but they had yet to crack the music market in the USA.

We will showcase a rare treat on the big screen, the Maysles brothers powerful, raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary film of The Beatles' first trip to the United States that threw the country into full-blown Beatlemania.

Do you want to learn and practice languages while getting to know people from around the world? Come to the language café then!

Welcome to the second conversation in our series “ASA in conversation with”. This time the event will host Akhenaton De Leon, the founder and Managing Director of Organisasjon mot Offentlig Diskriminering (OMOD), an organisation that has been leading civil rights’ actions and movements for the past 30 years.

Welcome to a conversation between Rahwa Yohaness and Dr. Michelle Tisdel, hosted by African Student Association UiO (ASA) and the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

Racism and representation are crucial issues in light of the upcoming US Presidential election. The Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences contributes to the debate by hosting a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of the Black Lives Matter movement.

In late February 1793, a report landed on the desk of Daniel Hailes, the British diplomatic representative in Copenhagen, stating that a French privateer had been sighted off the Southern-Norwegian coastal town of Mandal. This was the start of what would become a long-lasting debate between Great Britain on the one hand, and the dual-monarchy of Denmark-Norway on the other. 

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

What is fair use of sources and where does the limit for gray zone cases go? We help you navigate both obvious and non-obvious gray zones and minefields.

Have you chosen your style? APA, Chicago, Harvard, or MLA? We can help you with referencing and reference styles.

CANCELLED as a measure to prevent transmission of the corona virus.  The Library is closed.

Drop-in session for those who have chosen a topic and are doing a literature review. We show you how searching databases and using good keywords can help you get a complete overview of your topic and find the most important sources.

Do you have questions about using EndNote or Zotero? Completely blank or a bit stuck? Visit our drop-in session and get help!

AVLYST/CANCELLED som tiltak for å hindre smitte av korona-viruset! What can marriage symbolism tell us about representation and about cognition in the middle ages? In this book edited by Line Cecilie Engh, medievalists engage with both medieval and modern theories of representation and cognition to grapple with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period.

Are you struggling to formulate a problem for your assignment? Good literature searches with keywords can help you get started. Visit our drop-in session and get help! 

Open talk by Professor Lloyd Pratt, Oxford! How does Frederick Douglass's account of plain reading fit with his investment in rhetorical play elsewhere in his public discourse? Pratt also examines how the relative inattention to African American intellectual history in recent calls for new modes of reading in the humanities has undersold the complexity of African American thinking on the relation of reading to politics.

Life as a student or gründer can sometimes feel both overwhelming and chaotic. Therefore INSJ and FOP invite you to take part in a different and inspiring event to give you the tools for how to make it without losing your mind.

Literary Visions assembles, in English translation, more than 40 prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction that shed light on modern Middle Eastern lifeworlds.

Get an update on what is currently happening in Kashmir, in this seminar with psychological and medical anthropologist Dr. Saiba Varma.

Why did the twelfth-century canons at the Lateran church in Rome claim the presence of the Ark of the Covenant inside their high altar? Eivor Oftestad's new book argues that the claim responded to new challenges in the aftermath of the First Crusade in 1099. Welcome to book launch! 

Illinois State University Professor of History Andrew Hartman is currently at work on his third book, "Karl Marx in America". According to Hartman, to read and think about Karl Marx is to grapple with the modern world that capitalism has made.